Scientists: Wind, Drought Worsen Fires, Not Bad Management

Both nature and humans share blame for California's devastating wildfires, but forest management did not play a major role, despite President Donald Trump's claims, fire scientists say. Nature provides the dangerous winds that have whipped the fires, and human-caused climate change over the long haul is killing and drying the shrubs and trees that provide the fuel, experts say. "Natural factors and human-caused global warming effects fatally collude" in these fires,...

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